New York-based Group One Limited – the US distributor for DiGiCo, Solid State Logic, Calrec, Klang, Fourier Audio, Sound Devices Astral RF, elektraLite among other prominent pro audio and lighting industry brands – has made key changes to its management team.
Austin Freshwater has been appointed to serve as the new CEO for Group One, in addition to continuing his current role as DiGiCo Managing Director. Freshwater joined the leading digital console maker as General Manager in 2017, coming to the brand after a decade spent with Canon. After four years with DiGiCo at its global headquarters in the UK, he was promoted to the position of Managing Director in 2021. Now, as CEO of Group One, Freshwater will further oversee all sales, marketing and support teams for each of the distributor’s pro audio and lighting brands across the United States.
‘Although Group One primarily functions as a distributor, they’ve been an absolutely integral part of the Audiotonix family and its successes from the start,’ says James Gordon, CEO of Audiotonix, parent company of Group One Limited. ‘Over the past eight years that Austin has been tasked with managing DiGiCo, he’s repeatedly shown himself to be an incredibly astute and agile leader. Naturally, we’re elated that he’s willing to expand his purview to include spearheading the Group One brands and teams in North America. If his history here with DiGiCo is any indicator of the direction and drive he’ll be bringing to the Farmingdale, Chatsworth, and Lititz offices in the US, Group One is in very capable hands, indeed.’
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